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    Diff Between Sulzer and B&W Crosshead Lubrication

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    The key difference between the crosshead lubrication systems of Sulzer and MAN B&W engines is how they ensure adequate cooling of the loaded lower crosshead bearing surface. Sulzer engines require a separate high pressure pump to inject lubricating oil between the crosshead pin and plain lower bearing surface. In contrast, MAN B&W engines have machined channels in the lower crosshead bearing surface that allow circulating oil to flush the entire loaded bearing surface area twice per cycle at the much lower pressure supplied by the main lubricating pump. This eliminates the need for a separate high pressure pump.

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    The key difference between the crosshead lubrication systems of Sulzer and MAN B&W engines is how they ensure adequate cooling of the loaded lower crosshead bearing surface. Sulzer engines require a separate high pressure pump to inject lubricating oil between the crosshead pin and plain lower bearing surface. In contrast, MAN B&W engines have machined channels in the lower crosshead bearing surface that allow circulating oil to flush the entire loaded bearing surface area twice per cycle at the much lower pressure supplied by the main lubricating pump. This eliminates the need for a separate high pressure pump.

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    The key difference between the crosshead lubrication systems of Sulzer and MAN B&W engines is how they ensure adequate cooling of the loaded lower crosshead bearing surface. Sulzer engines require a separate high pressure pump to inject lubricating oil between the crosshead pin and plain lower bearing surface. In contrast, MAN B&W engines have machined channels in the lower crosshead bearing surface that allow circulating oil to flush the entire loaded bearing surface area twice per cycle at the much lower pressure supplied by the main lubricating pump. This eliminates the need for a separate high pressure pump.

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    Diff Between Sulzer and B&W Crosshead Lubrication

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    The key difference between the crosshead lubrication systems of Sulzer and MAN B&W engines is how they ensure adequate cooling of the loaded lower crosshead bearing surface. Sulzer engines require a separate high pressure pump to inject lubricating oil between the crosshead pin and plain lower bearing surface. In contrast, MAN B&W engines have machined channels in the lower crosshead bearing surface that allow circulating oil to flush the entire loaded bearing surface area twice per cycle at the much lower pressure supplied by the main lubricating pump. This eliminates the need for a separate high pressure pump.

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    The main purpose of circulated oil in engines is for cooling bearings. Modern engines require higher pressure oil pumps due to closed crankcases and higher bearing loads. MAN+B&W and Sulzer engines use different crosshead lubrication arrangements due to design differences in how cooling oil flows.

    MAN+B&W engines have machined channels in the lower crosshead bearing that allow cooling oil to flush all loaded surface areas of the crosshead pin twice per cycle. Sulzer engines have a plain lower bearing surface.

    In MAN+B&W engines, the lower crosshead bearing has machined channels that allow cooling oil to pass through and flush all loaded surface areas of the crosshead pin twice per engine cycle.

    Question:

    In Sulzer engines, there is a separate crosshead lubricating oil pump delivering


    oil at 12 to 16 bar for crosshead lubrication.
    MAN+B&W uses the same pump to supply oil to main bearings as well as
    crosshead at a much reduced pressure (around 3 to 5 bar).
    Both engines run satisfactorily without any crosshead problems and certainly
    MAN+B&W arrangement is more simple.
    The question is what is the difference from design aspect of the crosshead
    lubrication arrangements in the two engines that make it necessary to have a
    separate high pressure pump in one make of engine, while the other one does
    not need such pump?
    Answer:
    "More than 90% of the circulated oil has the sole purpose of cooling the
    bearings. If you study antique machines with open crankcases, you will see tha
    Crosshead bearing
    the amount of oil for lubrication is a few drops per minute. This is enough formaintaining the
    oil film in the bearing and with an open crankcase the frictionheat is removed by air-cooling.
    Modern engines have closed crankcaes and amuch higher bearing load - hence the need for
    oil cooling.
    In a main bearing, the oil is pumped into the upper shell and it will cool theupper part of the
    journal. Since the shaft is rotating, it is cooled on all sidesand because the oil film thickness is
    very small in the loaded part, the shaftwill cool the loaded bearing half as well.
    A crosshead bearing is only oscillating and the lower shell is always loaded. The
    cooling oil must be injected between shaft (crosshead pin) and lower bearing.
    In MAN B&W engines, we have machined a set of channels in the lower
    crosshead bearing, in which the cooling oil can pass. The geometry is designed
    in such a way that all the loaded square centimeters of the pin are flushed with
    cooling oil twice, every engine cycle.
    In contrast, the Sulzer croshead has a plain lower bearing without channels. Inorder to inject
    oil between pin and bearing, they have to supply oil at a muchhigher pressure. The injection
    will take place at around 20 degrees crank anglebefore TDC, where the cylinder pressure is
    still low and upward inertia forceson piston is still high. There is a short interval, in which the
    bearing pressure islower than the oil pressure"

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